✧I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ✧2He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light. ✧3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day. ✧4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. ✧5He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail. ✧6He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old. ✧7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. ✧8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. ✧9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. ✧10He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places. ✧11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. ✧12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ✧13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. ✧14I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day. ✧15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. ✧16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. ✧17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. ✧18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: ✧19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ✧20My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. ✧21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. ✧22[It is of] the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. ✧23[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness. ✧24The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. ✧25The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him. ✧26[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. ✧27[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. ✧28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him. ✧29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. ✧30He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. ✧31For the Lord will not cast off for ever: ✧32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. ✧33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. ✧34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, ✧35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, ✧36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. ✧37Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not? ✧38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? ✧39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? ✧40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. ✧41Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens. ✧42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. ✧43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. ✧44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through. ✧45Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. ✧46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. ✧47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. ✧48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ✧49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, ✧50Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. ✧51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. ✧52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. ✧53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. ✧54Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off. ✧55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. ✧56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. ✧57Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. ✧58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. ✧59O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. ✧60Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me. ✧61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me; ✧62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. ✧63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick. ✧64Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. ✧65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. ✧66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.